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 "Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do." - Wendell Berry

 

Signs placed on freeways around California.

"It is fairly well known what's been behind climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies." - Naomi Wolf

"If any songs are going to come out of World War Three, we'd better start writing them now." - Tom Lehrer

"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future." - Winston Churchill

 "You can tell the values of a nation by its advertisements." - Norman Douglas

 

Signs Posted - 7,133

SF/East Bay

"Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it." - Antoine de Saint Exupery

 Signs posted on the 80, 101 and 580 Freeways in San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland.

 "Fossil fuels are finished. The rest is just detail." - Paul Gilding

"People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot." - Banksy

 "There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies." - Winston Churchill

 Signs Posted - 7,124

Los Angeles

 "When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor." - Elon Musk

 Signs placed on the 10, 110 and 101 Freeways and La Cienega Bvld. in Los Angeles.

 "Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex." - Frank Zappa

 "There are only two races on this planet—the intelligent and the stupid." - John Fowles

 "War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace." - Thomas Mann

 "No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had." - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Signs Posted - 7,117

Marin County

 “Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.” – Juvenal

 Signs placed alongside Highway 101 in Marin County.

"Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all." - Voltaire

 "It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. This is in fact true. It's called living." - Terry Pratchett

 "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both" - Louis Brandeis

"A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future." - Leonard Bernstein

"Find what you like, and let it kill you." - Kinky Friedman

 

Signs Posted - 7,108

I - 405

"If we destroy Creation,

Creation will destroy us."

- Pope Francis

Signs placed on Interstate 405 in Los Angeles and Orange Counties.

"There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them." - Andre Gide

 "Everything in excess is opposed to nature." - Hippocrates

 “A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

"Nothing lasts." - Ken Kesey

 Signs Posted - 7,100

Los Angeles

 "There's no hope, but I may be wrong." - Pete Seeger

 Signs placed on the 10,110 and 101 freeways and La Cienega Blvd.

"This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play."  - Alan Watts

 "As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying." - Arthur C. Clarke

 "Heaven never helps the man who will not act." - Sophocles

"Paradise on earth is where I am." - Voltaire

Signs Posted - 7,090